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Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins reflect on 'Reflection'
6th May 2026
The violinist and composer-pianist discuss their album of music by Prokofiev, Stravinsky, the late Oliver Knussen and Watkins himself, released in February on Signum Classics.
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Idith Meshulam Korman and Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey on Marianna Martines
27th Apr 2026
Idith Meshulam Korman and Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey talk about their new album dedicated to the complete keyboard works of Marianna Martines, and their passion for giving voice to a composer and performer of considerable talent who has been unfairly obscured by history and the conventions of her time.
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Joseph Nolan on the organ works of Alkan
23rd Apr 2026
The organist talks about the first instalment of his new project - recording the complete organ works of the French Romantic keyboard sorcerer Charles-Valentin Alkan, known as much for his epic-scale piano works as for his organ compositions.
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Joseph Nolan (organ)
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2026: The Winners!
23rd Apr 2026
Exciting news from last night's glittering ceremony at Kings Place, including details of the well-deserved Recording of the Year and Personality of the Year Awards...
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Nicholas Collon on Hans Zender
8th Apr 2026
The British conductor discusses recording and performing Zender's 'composed interpretation' of Schubert's Winterreise with Aurora Orchestra and Allan Clayton, and explains why he believes that this version of the piece has much to offer to seasoned Schubertians and newcomers like.
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Alexandra Dariescu on A Child's Dream
18th Feb 2026
The Romanian pianist takes us back to the beginning of her musical journey on her new album, featuring the first piece she ever played with an orchestra (at the tender age of nine) plus music by Nadia Boulanger, Amy Beach, Missy Mazzoli and more.
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The Calidore String Quartet weave an American Tapestry
13th Feb 2026
The New York-based quartet present music by three of their compatriots (plus one Viennese émigré), in a thoughtful album showcasing the diversity and richness of twentieth-century American music.
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Calidore String Quartet
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A Winterreise with a difference from Allan Clayton
16th Jan 2026
The British tenor joins forces with Aurora Orchestra under its founder Nicholas Collon for Hans Zender's 'composed interpretation' of Schubert's bleak song-cycle, premiered in 1993 and bringing the piece's chilly soundscapes to life with an ensemble which includes accordion, guitar, a battery of percussion and a wind-machine.
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Kitty Whately on Rebecca Clarke
5th Nov 2025
In advance of the release of Clarke's complete songs on Signum this Friday, the British mezzo discusses her ongoing advocacy for women composers, with plans including a focus-day on Clarke at Wigmore Hall this weekend and a major new song competition early next year.
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Nigel Short on A Prayer for Deliverance
13th Aug 2025
Tenebrae's conductor talks about the choir's most recent album, pairing an astonishing, virtuosic and powerful new work from rising US composer Joel Thompson with Howells's well-loved Requiem.
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Zlatomir Fung on Fantasies
25th Jun 2025
The young American cellist discusses his debut solo album on Signum, featuring virtuosic fantasies on operas by Donizetti, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Bizet - plus his own astute paraphrase on Janáček's Jenůfa.
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Zlatomir Fung (cello), Richard Fu (piano)
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Christopher Gray on Lament and Liberation
23rd Jun 2025
The Music Director of St John's College Cambridge talks about his first album with the choir - built around James MacMillan's Cantos Sagrados and Joanna Marsh's Echoes in Time.
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Cello Fantasies from Zlatomir Fung and Richard Fu
25th Apr 2025
The American cellist makes his début with an album of six gorgeous opera-fantasies, including two world premieres and showing that the genre is alive and well.
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Zlatomir Fung (cello), Richard Fu (piano)
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Holy Week with The Bevan Family Consort
17th Apr 2025
Four members of the British choir of cousins and siblings discuss their new album of music for Lent and Passiontide Attende Domine, released on Signum Classics earlier this month and featuring works by composers including Alfonso Ferrabosco, Girolamo Giacobbi, Mel Bonis and family friend Neil Wright.
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Episode 57: James Rhodes on MANíA
16th Mar 2025
James Rhodes talks to Matthew Ash about his new album MANíA (out now on Signum), in a wide-ranging conversation that reaches deep into a shared wonder at the power and beauty of music, as well as 4AM awakenings and coffee.
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Christopher and Geoffrey in the Lions' Den
12th Feb 2025
Conductor Christopher Monks and musicologist Geoffrey Webber talk about their work bringing Francesco Scarlatti's dramatic Biblical oratorio Il Daniele nel Lago de' Leoni back to life - featuring dragons, demons and more.
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Alessio Bax on Forgotten Dances
15th Jan 2025
The Italian pianist discusses his latest album of dance-inspired music from Bach to Bartók on Signum Classics, splitting Bach fugues with his brother as a child, and his conviction that 'the magic is broken' if a performance simply recreates what happened in the practice-room...
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English Song Recitals from Robin Tritschler and James Gilchrist
21st Jun 2024
Tritschler joins forces with Malcolm Martineau, Sean Shibe and Philip Higham to pay tribute to Peter Pears on Signum, whilst Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook bring unaffected eloquence to a collection of songs by Roger Quilter on Chandos.
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Robin Tritschler on Songs for Peter Pears
18th Jun 2024
The Irish tenor discusses his tribute to Peter Pears (released last Friday on Signum Classics), which includes song-cycles by Lennox Berkeley, Geoffrey Bush, Arthur Oldham, and of course Pears's life-partner Benjamin Britten.
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Paul McCreesh conducts Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
26th Apr 2024
Using instruments from around the time of the work's premiere in 1900, Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli offer an illuminating recording that not only provides great textual clarity but also shows off the fine details of Elgar's orchestration.
